Matthew Vadum

Co-Host of The Week's Worst

The author of Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011), Vadum writes and speaks widely on ACORN and other radical advocacy organizations and their sources of funding. He is a frequent guest on Fox News and a contributor to FrontPageMag.com, American Thinker, PJMedia.com, Daily Caller, and the American Spectator. Vadum received an M.A. in American Studies from Georgetown University. A longtime journalist, he was previously a reporter at The Bond Buyer newspaper and the Central Penn Business Journal.

September 8th, 2017
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58 mins 43 secs

The Capital Research Center's Matthew Vadum and Michael Watson (filling in for Dr. Steven J. Allen) discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Vadum and Watson have a heated debate over the Trump administration's decision to revoke DACA, an Obama era policy protecting illegal immigrants brought over as children, and immigration policy more broadly.

August 25th, 2017
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45 mins 44 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: In the wake of Charlottesville, Confederate monuments are back in the news. Should we take them down or leave them up? We go over all the angles and perspectives.

August 11th, 2017
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58 mins 11 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Former Google employee James Damore was fired for writing a memo entitled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber," which was accused of being sexist. Was it? We argue no!

August 7th, 2017
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57 mins 37 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Is the White House in chaos? With the firing of Anthony Scaramucci, Reince Priebus, and many members of the National Security Council, the answer might be yes. But can new Chief of Staff General John F. Kelly change things?

July 28th, 2017
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45 mins 13 secs

boy scouts, conservative, jamboree, politics, trump, tweets

The Capital Research Center's Matthew Vadum and Michael Watson (filling in for Dr. Steven J. Allen) discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Vadum and Watson debate Trump's speech to the Boy Scouts as well as his general communications strategy.

July 21st, 2017
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44 mins 24 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Republicans seemingly fail to get enough votes to repeal and replace Obamacare. But was their bill any good anyway?

June 30th, 2017
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50 mins 59 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Mike Watson (filling in for Matthew Vadum) discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Trump's executive order banning travel from select countries is reinstated by the Supreme Court. We debate the merits of that executive order.

June 23rd, 2017
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33 mins 22 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: In the special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district, Jon Ossoff loses and Karen Handel wins, but it's a close one.

June 14th, 2017
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50 mins 44 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former FBI head James Comey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Plus, a comment of the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise and others.

June 2nd, 2017
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33 mins 34 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: The President is criticized for pulling America out of the Paris Climate Accord. Dr. Steven J. Allen, an expert on the accord, explains why the President made the right decision.

May 19th, 2017
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37 mins 5 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Talk of a Trump impeachment has reached it's highest point yet. Will it happen?

May 5th, 2017
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38 mins 2 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Hillary Clinton emerges and discusses why she thinks she lost the 2016 election.

April 28th, 2017
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33 mins 27 secs

In this episode the Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the BEST news story of the last week: the launches of our brand new film America Under Siege: Soviet Islam (watch at DangerousDocumentaries.com), and our new study on spending in the climate change debate at at ClimateDollars.org

April 14th, 2017
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41 mins 10 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode: Our nation's current military interventions. War in Syria, the "Mother of all Bombs" dropped in Afghanistan, and North Korean escalation.

April 7th, 2017
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41 mins 12 secs

The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen and Matthew Vadum discuss the worst news story of the last week. In this episode, two stories: Trump strikes Syrian military targets after their use of chemical weapons, and former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice is discovered to have been behind the unmasking of Trump transition officials' phone calls captured during "incidental" collection.